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Chad
Aug 16, 2009 18:37:04 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2009 18:37:04 GMT -5
What is the name of the actor who played Chad?
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Aug 16, 2009 20:01:24 GMT -5
Post by Tracey on Aug 16, 2009 20:01:24 GMT -5
What is the name of the actor who played Chad? Michael O'Keefe who played Chad Marshall in Season 4 "The Competition" and Season 5 in "The Elopement"
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Aug 16, 2009 22:41:40 GMT -5
Post by nate on Aug 16, 2009 22:41:40 GMT -5
Yeah, I thought it was a shame that his character sort of drifted off into the mountain never to be heard from again. I guess the writers were ready to get on to more interesting beau's for Erin. Any other thoughts?
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Chad
Aug 17, 2009 20:08:11 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2009 20:08:11 GMT -5
Loved "The Elopement" episode!
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Chad
Aug 18, 2009 15:40:32 GMT -5
Post by dfnmeows44 on Aug 18, 2009 15:40:32 GMT -5
and it brought out Olivia's good character----she could have told John the same thing Harriet told Nels--- "Make her a widow!"
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Aug 19, 2009 1:03:03 GMT -5
Post by Ron E. on Aug 19, 2009 1:03:03 GMT -5
Michael O'Keeffe who played Chad Marshall in Season 4 "The Competition" and Season 5 in "The Elopement" is the ex-husband of the musician Bonnie Raitt. We used to joke and call him Mr. Bonnie Raitt because she was more famous than he was in musical circles.
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Chad
Sept 13, 2009 3:06:39 GMT -5
Post by historyrus on Sept 13, 2009 3:06:39 GMT -5
In "The Elopement" Momma and Daddy Walton object to Erin marrying Chad, saying that she's too young and that she must finish high school first. Then we're told that Erin would spend her free time helping Chad build his cabin.
Yet even though Erin graduates from high school just 2 episodes later in "The Career Girl" we never see Chad again. It seems like they could have just gotten married 2 weeks after their attempted elopement, once Erin finished high school.
I guess the producers wanted to keep Erin eligible for kissing whatever male guest star would show up next as her suitor.
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Chad
Sept 13, 2009 14:01:17 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2009 14:01:17 GMT -5
I don't believe that she graduated just 2 weeks later, in The Waltons the shows didn't run like that. Sometimes they jumped around in the same season and some seasons were more than the memories of one year.
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Sept 13, 2009 15:11:01 GMT -5
Post by historyrus on Sept 13, 2009 15:11:01 GMT -5
Can you give an example of how one season was more than the memories of one year? Yes, a particular episode like The Achievement had flashbacks of previous episodes/seasons, but the actual season 5 I think covered only about 1 year.
According to The Waltons Season 5 DVD, The Elopement's original airdate was 1/13/1977. The Career Girl in which Erin graduates from high school had its original airdate on 1/27/1977.
While in "Waltons Mountain time" the graduation may not not been exactly 2 weeks later than the elopement (matching the airdates of the episodes), but nevertheless Erin did graduate around the time of the elopement, and I would think in that same year. Earl Hamner in A Decade of the Waltons comments that prior to The Waltons, that it was common on tv shows that the family/characters remained rather fixed in time, that the episodes would often not reflect the previous episode's events. But he noted that The Waltons was different, that each episode was like a chapter in the family's life.
So even if we allow a little flexibility for when the episodes Elopement and Career Girl happened, nevertheless Erin would only have had to wait a short time until she graduated and could marry Chad.
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Sept 13, 2009 22:23:26 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2009 22:23:26 GMT -5
Hmmmmm, okay lets see what I can remember! In The Elopement Erin was on 16 and saying that she was not going to go back to school. I was thinking that it was probably summer break and she was saying that she would not be returning to school in the fall. It was just a few episodes later that Ben took the job as a car salesman and he was at least 1 year behind Erin in school. Also, when Erin graduates Elizabeth says that she will graduate in 8 years ~ the last episode of that season is where John Boy goes to New York City to follow his novel and find out if it's going to be published. While in NYC John Boy goes to visit a novelist at Elizabeths request (she wrote that spy girl book Elizabeth loved), anyway the young lady has died and John Boy has a visit with her Mother and says that he is there on the behalf of his youngest sister who is 13!! So apparently season 5 covers maybe close to 3 years.
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Chad
Sept 14, 2009 1:19:08 GMT -5
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Post by historyrus on Sept 14, 2009 1:19:08 GMT -5
you've made me really curious about the timeline, so I had to replay some of the episodes.
The opening narration of The Elopement says that Chad Marshall first visited in the summer of 1936 and then returned in the spring of 1937. The opening narration of The Career Girl says that Erin graduated in 1937. So if we go by Mr. Hamner's narration, Erin ran off with Chad and then graduated around spring 1937. Maybe it wasn't 2 weeks apart as the episode airdates, but pretty close. Erin's parents object to her getting married before she graduates from high school, but if she graduated by spring 1937 she must have eloped earlier.
The opening narration of The Go Getter says it was the spring of 1938, so that was indeed portraying events a year after Erin's elopement and graduation. John Boy in The Achievement explains to the mother of the author who wrote Jessica, Girl Spy that Elizabeth is "Twelve years old, and small for her age." So I think that The Achievement happened perhaps also in 1938. John Boy says to the Hastings House publisher/editor that he has been working on the novel for 5 years, so from 1933-1938. Also, Elizabeth is age 6 when the series starts so if she turned 7 in those early times then she would have been 12 some 5 years later when John Boy goes to New York for the first time. Also, since John Boy started college in autumn 1934, he could have graduated by spring 1938 (although his college graduation was not covered in an episode) so it would not seem that he was giving up his beloved college experience and just dropping out to move to New York.
But my hunch is that The Go Getter and The Achievement were put into Season 5 when Richard Thomas decided to leave The Waltons as a regular cast member at the end of season 5. The producers shot those episodes that could have been done at season 6 if RT had stayed, and they just filmed them for season 5 while RT was still around.
Do you think that season 5 is an anomaly in containing events from multiple years? Did other seasons seem to cover multiple years too?
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